1492 · Skopia

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Vitruvian Man

Drawing · High Renaissance

Vitruvian Man

Leonardo da Vinci

1492 · Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Leonardo fixed Vitruvius's old problem by moving the centers, so that the navel governs the circle and the groin governs the square.

★ 8.7

Personal journal

At two hours after midnight appeared the land, at a distance of two leagues. They handed all sails and set the treo, which is the mainsail without bonnets, and lay-to waiting for daylight Friday, when they arrived at an island of the Bahamas that was called in the Indians' tongue Guanahaní.

Christopher Columbus

1492

★ 3.8